WEBVTT 00:00.000 --> 00:05.920 Chapter 13, The Burden of Babylon, which Isaiah, the son of Amoz, 00:06.020 --> 00:06.540 did see. 00:07.740 --> 00:09.780 Lift ye up a banner upon the high mountain. 00:10.520 --> 00:11.900 Exalt the voice unto them. 00:12.400 --> 00:15.500 Shake the hand, that they may go into the gates of the nobles. 00:16.220 --> 00:18.360 I have commanded my sanctified ones. 00:18.660 --> 00:23.500 I have also called my mighty ones for mine anger, even them that rejoice in my 00:23.500 --> 00:23.800 highness. 00:24.620 --> 00:30.420 The noise of a multitude in the mountains, like as of a great people, a tumultuous 00:30.420 --> 00:32.940 noise of the kingdoms of nations gathered together. 00:33.940 --> 00:36.980 The Lord of hosts mustereth the host of the battle. 00:37.900 --> 00:43.060 They come from a far country, from the end of heaven, even the Lord, and the weapons 00:43.060 --> 00:45.940 of his indignation, to destroy the whole land. 00:46.880 --> 00:49.360 Howl ye, for the day of the Lord is at hand. 00:49.840 --> 00:52.000 It shall come as a destruction from the Almighty. 00:52.780 --> 00:57.320 Therefore shall all hands be faint, and every man's heart shall melt, 00:57.780 --> 00:59.100 and they shall be afraid. 00:59.820 --> 01:02.240 Pangs and sorrows shall take hold of them. 01:02.660 --> 01:05.380 They shall be in pain as a woman that travaileth. 01:05.820 --> 01:07.900 They shall be amazed one at another. 01:08.600 --> 01:10.360 Their faces shall be as flames. 01:11.280 --> 01:16.080 Behold, the day of the Lord cometh, cruel both with wrath and fierce anger, 01:16.640 --> 01:21.280 to lay the land desolate, and he shall destroy the sinners thereof out of it. 01:21.280 --> 01:25.940 For the stars of heaven, and the constellations thereof, shall not give 01:25.940 --> 01:26.480 their light. 01:27.160 --> 01:31.760 The sun shall be darkened in his going forth, and the moon shall not cause her 01:31.760 --> 01:32.520 light to shine. 01:33.360 --> 01:37.920 And I will punish the world for their evil, and the wicked for their iniquity. 01:38.360 --> 01:42.780 And I will cause the arrogancy of the proud to cease, and will lay low the 01:42.780 --> 01:43.900 haughtiness of the terrible. 01:44.580 --> 01:50.040 I will make a man more precious than fine gold, even a man than the golden wedge of 01:50.040 --> 01:50.360 Ophir. 01:51.100 --> 01:54.860 Therefore I will shake the heavens, and the earth shall remove out of her 01:54.860 --> 01:59.520 place, in the wrath of the Lord of hosts, and in the day of his fierce anger. 02:00.360 --> 02:05.100 And it shall be as the chaste row, and as a sheep that no man taketh up. 02:05.560 --> 02:10.280 They shall every man turn to his own people, and flee every one into his own 02:10.280 --> 02:10.700 land. 02:11.420 --> 02:15.900 Every one that is found shall be thrust through, and every one that is joined unto 02:15.900 --> 02:17.520 them shall fall by the sword. 02:17.520 --> 02:21.460 Their children also shall be dashed to pieces before their eyes. 02:21.900 --> 02:25.720 Their houses shall be spoiled, and their wives ravished. 02:26.460 --> 02:31.680 Behold, I will stir up the meads against them, which shall not regard silver, 02:31.840 --> 02:34.240 and as for gold, they shall not delight in it. 02:34.740 --> 02:39.500 Their bows also shall dash the young men to pieces, and they shall have no pity on 02:39.500 --> 02:40.420 the fruit of the womb. 02:41.220 --> 02:42.940 Their eyes shall not spare children. 02:43.620 --> 02:48.180 And Babylon, the glory of kingdoms, the beauty of the Chaldees' excellency, 02:48.920 --> 02:51.340 shall be as when God overthrew Sodom and Gomorrah. 02:52.040 --> 02:56.360 It shall never be inhabited, neither shall it be dwelt in from generation to 02:56.360 --> 02:56.880 generation. 02:57.600 --> 03:01.720 Neither shall the Arabian pitch tent there, neither shall the shepherds make 03:01.720 --> 03:02.760 their fold there. 03:03.440 --> 03:08.080 But wild beasts of the desert shall lie there, and their houses shall be full of 03:08.080 --> 03:09.000 doleful creatures. 03:09.000 --> 03:13.620 And owls shall dwell there, and satyrs shall dance there. 03:14.380 --> 03:19.340 And the wild beasts of the islands shall cry in their desolate houses, and dragons 03:19.340 --> 03:20.620 in their pleasant palaces. 03:21.400 --> 03:25.200 And her time is near to come, and her days shall not be prolonged.